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Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century.

He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine[?], flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others.

Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Works include

L'Hermine[?] (1931)
Mandarine (1933)
Y avait un prisonnier (1935)
Le voyageur sans bagage (1937)
La sauvage (1938)
Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
Léocadia (1940)
Eurydice (1941)
Le rendez-vous de Senlis (1941)
Antigone (1942)
Roméo et Jeannette (1946)
L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
Ardèle ou la Marguerite (1948)
La répétition ou l'amour puni (1950)
Colombe (1951)
La valse des toréadors (1952)
L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
Ornifle ou le courant d'air (1955)
Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes (1956)
Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (1959)
L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux (1959)
La petite Molière (1959)
La Grotte (1961)
Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron (1968)
Cher Antoine (1969)
Chers zoizeaux (1976)
Le nombril (1981)

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